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[JoAnne Reinking]

For those interested in supporting this ~ the link provides an easy way to send a message.

"Urgent Vote on Education Jobs

The U.S. Senate will vote IMMINENTLY on an amendment to the small business bill (H.R. 5297) that would provide $9.7 billion to save approximately 135,000 education jobs jeopardized by state and local budget cuts. This amendment is fully paid for and is DIFFERENT than the House-passed education jobs fund.

Contact your Senator NOW. Urge your Senator to vote YES to education jobs amendment to the small business bill (H.R. 5297)"

http://capwiz.com/ne...lertid=15205681

~ this is not a solution , just another one time fix but we could use the help.

[Parizienne]

Done.

It literally took less than two minutes -- maybe less, folks.

Thanks, JoAnne, for posting this!

Pari.

For those interested in supporting this ~ the link provides an easy way to send a message.

"Urgent Vote on Education Jobs

The U.S. Senate will vote IMMINENTLY on an amendment to the small business bill (H.R. 5297) that would provide $9.7 billion to save approximately 135,000 education jobs jeopardized by state and local budget cuts. This amendment is fully paid for and is DIFFERENT than the House-passed education jobs fund.

Contact your Senator NOW. Urge your Senator to vote YES to education jobs amendment to the small business bill (H.R. 5297)"

http://capwiz.com/ne...lertid=15205681

~ this is not a solution , just another one time fix but we could use the help.

[Bill Z]

For those interested in supporting this ~ the link provides an easy way to send a message.

"Urgent Vote on Education Jobs

The U.S. Senate will vote IMMINENTLY on an amendment to the small business bill (H.R. 5297) that would provide $9.7 billion to save approximately 135,000 education jobs jeopardized by state and local budget cuts. This amendment is fully paid for and is DIFFERENT than the House-passed education jobs fund.

Contact your Senator NOW. Urge your Senator to vote YES to education jobs amendment to the small business bill (H.R. 5297)"

http://capwiz.com/ne...lertid=15205681

~ this is not a solution , just another one time fix but we could use the help.

Could you enlighten me and the rest of us what this amendment to a small business loan bill entails? Does this help the small businesses that are supposed to be helped by this bill?
or does it re-direct funds away from small businesses or does it raise taxes on small businesses to fund education. I really need more info before I support this ammendment to the small business loan bill.

[ducky]

Yeah, more information, please. What is the amendment number so we can look at the text?

[eVader]

Education is getting hit hard from K-12 to colleges. FLC classes are full with waitlists because they have had to cut back. This is Ironic at a time when technology CEOs claim America doesn't have an appropriately educated workforce to be innovators again.

Would be nice to see a CA Education budget spin vs. fact analysis and one that helps determine where the problem is - lack of realistic funding, bloated upper administration vs. local level teachers or costly bureaucratic policies.

[JoAnne Reinking]

For those who care~ since I posted the request for help thought I'd follow through with the end result.


"...............the Senate failed by 58-42 to move forward the small biz bill." (Boxer & Feinstein were Yea's)


But~ ......" Sen. Reid will now attach ed jobs to another bill that will be voted on Monday."

Seems the "ed jobs" component will not go away quietly.

[MSgt]

For those who care~ since I posted the request for help thought I'd follow through with the end result.


"...............the Senate failed by 58-42 to move forward the small biz bill." (Boxer & Feinstein were Yea's)


But~ ......" Sen. Reid will now attach ed jobs to another bill that will be voted on Monday."

Seems the "ed jobs" component will not go away quietly.

Wow, sounds kinda like how we just found out that they attached a new tax on gold to the Health Care Bill and nobody knew it was there. More crooked politics. More tricks and lies.

Something about this ed jobs being snuck through by attaching it to other bills makes my skin crawl.

[JoAnne Reinking]

US Senate approves "ed jobs " bill. Congress expected to approve in Sept.


"The U.S. Senate today voted 61-38 to end debate on the bill that includes $10 billion for schools. The money is designed to prevent layoffs. ......... Senate approval of the measure is all but assured and will happen in the next 24 hours. The House is on recess and is expected to approve the measure when it returns in September. What this means for California schools is still unknown, but it is estimated that it will provide $1 billion to $1.2 billion or between $170 to $200 per ADA. When the money would be distributed is still not known."

Real challenge ~ if this money becomes reality is to prevent the state from concocting a way to reduce funding based on this action.

[mac_convert]

Great. Our taxes will go up and FCUSD won't get a penny of it anyway. Our governor will do something to get the money funneled into his priorities.

US Senate approves "ed jobs " bill. Congress expected to approve in Sept.


"The U.S. Senate today voted 61-38 to end debate on the bill that includes $10 billion for schools. The money is designed to prevent layoffs. ......... Senate approval of the measure is all but assured and will happen in the next 24 hours. The House is on recess and is expected to approve the measure when it returns in September. What this means for California schools is still unknown, but it is estimated that it will provide $1 billion to $1.2 billion or between $170 to $200 per ADA. When the money would be distributed is still not known."

Real challenge ~ if this money becomes reality is to prevent the state from concocting a way to reduce funding based on this action.

[The Average Joe]

Real challenge ~ if this money becomes reality is to prevent the state from concocting a way to reduce funding based on this action.


Arrrrrrgh!
This is nothing but further debt for our kids. It's like saying, "Hey, we can no longer afford our house, car, or vacations, but let's take a loan out to keep our lifestyle intact for another year so we won't have to make any hard choices."

Stupid, stupid, stupid. And guess what, next year the bill will still be due....with interest.
Freaking morons are running the show...

[JoAnne Reinking]

Thought you'd like to know how this ended~ the bill that included "ed jobs" was passed in Senate/Congress ~ President expected to sign soon.